Discourse Analysis Of Post-Truth Communicatio

The heated discussion triggered by the term "post-truth" focused on the contradiction of pursuing the truth in the emotion releasing of social media.People expect to eliminate the "post-truth" and return to the truth.In fact,the “truth” that people have always believed in is not the same as fact,but the truth system that obtains the only authority in the discourse construction of the news media,and the political and economic ideology is hidden behind.Social media disperses the right to construct truth in the hands of users.Individuals with different cultural backgrounds have gained a channel to reinvent the truth through the participation of everyone in the discourse output.This constitutes the shift of the right to determine truth from ideology to cultural background.In order to further study the influence of participatory culture bred by social media in the construction of truth,this article uses Chinese social media----Weibo as a discourse collection platform to analyze user comments on the Yellow Vest Movement in France.Combining critical discourse analysis and frame theory to form a framework for critical frame analysis,researching the reposting and commenting content under the Yellow Vest Movement report of the Weibo of official media,exploring the truth of social media users’ cognition,responding to three core questions: How does the social media discourse construct the truth;what cultural motives are hidden behind the truth discourse;what kind of cultural shift is promoted by social media.In the Weibo commentary of Yellow Vest Movement,social media enriched the issues vertically and horizontally,pushed the topics to the international background,combined with local history and culture,and diversely constructed different aspects of the truth.The deep structure pointed to by the surface structure in the speeches of Chinese social media participants is revolutionary culture,class culture,globalization,mass culture and circle culture.With the expansion of the right to speak on social media,the five dimensions of emotional,popular,stratified,localized,and individual integrity have formed.The reconstruction of concepts,the exploration of internal cultural causes and the understanding of cultural transfer can allow people to transcend the myth of "post-truth" and rationally treat the truth construction of social media.